Mobile phone positioning refers to the technology or service that obtains the location information (latitude and longitude coordinates) of a cell phone or end user through specific positioning technology, and marks the location of the object to be positioned on an electronic map. There are two types of positioning technology, one based on GPS and the other based on the base station of the mobile operation network. The GPS-based positioning method uses the GPS positioning module on the cell phone to send its own location signal to the positioning background to realize cell phone positioning.

Base station positioning, on the other hand, makes use of the base station's measured distance from the phone to determine the phone's location. The latter does not require the phone to have GPS positioning capabilities, but the accuracy depends largely on the distribution of base stations and the size of the coverage area, the error will be more than one kilometer. The former positioning accuracy is higher. In addition, there is also the use of Wifi in a small range of positioning methods.